Just for smartphones: pull your smartphone out of your pocket. This is how DL generates economic value: DL
affects the chip design, is an increasing fraction of the chips on the SoC,
is most of what your camera does,
detects your face to unlock it,
powers the recommendations of every single thing on it whether Youtube or app store or streaming service (including the news articles and notifications shown to you as you unlock),
powers the features like
transcripts of calls or
machine translation of pages or
spam detection that you take for granted,
powers the ads which monetize you in the search engine
[search engine] results which they also power,
the anti-hacking and anti-abuse measures which keep you safe
(and also censor hatespeech etc on streams or social media),
the voice synthesis you hear when you talk to it,
the voice transcription when you talk to it or have your Zoom/Google videoconference sessions during the pandemic,
the wake words,
the predictive text when you prefer to type rather than talk
and the email suggestions (the whole email, or just the spelling/grammar suggestions),
the GNN traffic forecasts changing your Google Maps route to the meeting you emailed about,
the cooling systems of the data centers running all of this
(not to mention optimizing the placement of the programs within the data centers both spatially in solving the placement problem and temporally in forecasting)...
The above answer, partially as bulleted lists.
affects the chip design, is an increasing fraction of the chips on the SoC,
is most of what your camera does,
detects your face to unlock it,
powers the recommendations of every single thing on it whether Youtube or app store or streaming service (including the news articles and notifications shown to you as you unlock),
powers the features like
transcripts of calls or
machine translation of pages or
spam detection that you take for granted,
powers the ads which monetize you in the search engine
[search engine] results which they also power,
the anti-hacking and anti-abuse measures which keep you safe
(and also censor hatespeech etc on streams or social media),
the voice synthesis you hear when you talk to it,
the voice transcription when you talk to it or have your Zoom/Google videoconference sessions during the pandemic,
the wake words,
the predictive text when you prefer to type rather than talk
and the email suggestions (the whole email, or just the spelling/grammar suggestions),
the GNN traffic forecasts changing your Google Maps route to the meeting you emailed about,
the cooling systems of the data centers running all of this
(not to mention optimizing the placement of the programs within the data centers both spatially in solving the placement problem and temporally in forecasting)...